Controller

Own balance sheet integrity and ensure reconciliations are completed timely, reviewed appropriately, and supported by sufficient documentation.

Identify high-risk accounts, aged reconciling items, unsupported balances, recurring variances, and unresolved accounting issues.

Establish standards for reconciliation quality, review signoff, issue resolution, and escalation.

Partner with accounting managers to ensure account ownership is clear and issues are resolved at the appropriate level rather than pushed upward without analysis.

Lead audit readiness efforts and ensure the accounting organization is prepared to support external audit requirements efficiently and accurately.

Maintain an audit-readiness tracker, open item list, and supporting documentation standards.

Identify control gaps, process breakdowns, documentation weaknesses, and areas of manual reliance or tribal knowledge.

Partner with the CFO and external auditors to resolve audit issues, improve audit support, and reduce last-minute scrambles.

Strengthen internal controls across close, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, AP, cash disbursements, vendor master, approvals, and financial reporting processes.

Assess current accounting processes and implement improvements that increase efficiency, accuracy, visibility, and scalability.

Create and maintain standardized accounting procedures, close checklists, reconciliation standards, review checklists, issue escalation protocols, and process documentation.

Reduce single points of failure by ensuring knowledge is documented and appropriately distributed across the team.

Partner with Finance, Operations, Payroll, Tax, IT, and other departments to improve upstream data quality, handoffs, and process ownership.

Support ERP, reporting, workflow, automation, and system improvement initiatives from an accounting process and control perspective.

Lead, develop, and hold accountable the accounting team, including managers and individual contributors.

Evaluate team capabilities, role clarity, capacity, ownership, and readiness for the company's future-state accounting model.

Develop managers so they own the readiness and quality of their areas before work moves to senior review.

Coach team members while maintaining clear performance standards and accountability.

Identify staffing gaps, training needs, role misalignments, and opportunities to strengthen the accounting organization.

Build a bench that reduces reliance on any single individual and supports sustainable execution.

Provide accounting leadership and oversight across AP, disbursements, cash operations, vendor master controls, payment approvals, manual payments, and related control processes.

Ensure appropriate segregation of duties, approval discipline, documentation standards, and exception handling.

Partner with the appropriate manager to address AP backlogs, payment risks, duplicate payment exposure, vendor master risk, and cash/disbursement control gaps.

Ensure procurement, purchasing, AP, accounting, and cash operations processes are aligned and appropriately controlled.

The ideal candidate is a strong accounting operator who can both lead and dig in. This person is comfortable challenging incomplete work, asking the right questions, identifying risks, and creating structure where processes are informal or inconsistent.

They should bring a mix of technical accounting competence, operational discipline, leadership maturity, and practical process improvement experience. They do not need to personally complete every task, but they must know enough to evaluate work quality, identify gaps, hold owners accountable, and ensure the accounting function produces reliable financial results.

This person should be comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment where the company is professionalizing its finance and accounting function under private equity ownership. They should be direct, organized, hands-on, resilient, and able to build trust while raising the standard of performance.

• Deliver accurate, complete, and CFO-ready financial results on a consistent timeline.

• Develop managers who own their functional areas.

• Create a disciplined, repeatable month-end close process.

• Reduce single points of failure and reliance on tribal knowledge.

• Improve balance sheet reconciliation quality and reduce unsupported or aged items.

• Improve documentation, controls, and process consistency.

• Strengthen audit readiness and reduce last-minute audit scrambles.

• Identify and resolve recurring accounting issues before they escalate.

• Clarify ownership and accountability across the accounting team.

• Build a scalable accounting function capable of supporting GT's next stage of growth.

• Strong ownership mindset

• Ability to challenge assumptions and incomplete work constructively

• High attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture

• Process improvement orientation

• Ability to lead through change and ambiguity

• Team development and accountability

• Direct, clear, and professional communication style

• High integrity and commitment to financial accuracy

• Strong judgment and escalation discipline

• Ability to partner effectively with CFO, FP&A, Tax, Operations, Payroll, IT, auditors, and private equity stakeholders

The Controller will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and will lead the accounting organization. The role will partner closely with Finance, Tax, Payroll, Operations, IT, external auditors, and executive leadership.